El motor modular o "mod motor", és una família de motors de Ford Motor Company de construcció OHC (overhead camshaft) de 8 i 10 cilindres en V. Substitueix de forma gradual a les anteriors famílies Windsor i 385. Es fabriquen, des de 1991 principalment a la planta de . També a Windsor, Ontario se'n produeixen. Aquests motors són usats a les camionetes Ford Motor Company (reben el nom de ), cotxes Lincoln (reben el nom d'Intech) i en els Mercury. (ca)
The Ford Modular engine is Ford Motor Company's overhead camshaft (OHC) V8 and V10 gasoline-powered small block engine family. Despite popular belief that the Modular engine family received its moniker from the sharing of engine parts across numerous Ford vehicle platforms, in reality, the Modular engine family was named as such by Ford Motor Company for the new "modular approach" to the setup of tooling and casting stations in the Windsor and Romeo engine manufacturing plants. Implementing a "modular approach" allowed for significantly faster changeovers when switching from one engine platform to another among the Modular engine family. This also allowed for the existing engine plants, and their supporting offsite production facilities, to handle shorter production runs. Implementing shorter production runs without incurring large shutdown and retooling expenses helped to increase the versatility of those production stations that required tooling or machining setups specific to a certain vehicle platform. The Modular engine family started with the 4.6L in 1990 for the 1991 model year. The Modular engines are used in various Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles. Modular engines used in Ford trucks were marketed under the Triton name from 1997–2010 while the InTech name was used for a time at Lincoln and Mercury for vehicles equipped with DOHC versions of the engines. The engines were first produced in the Ford Romeo Engine Plant, then additional capacity was added in Windsor, Ontario. (en)
El motor modular o "mod motor", és una família de motors de Ford Motor Company de construcció OHC (overhead camshaft) de 8 i 10 cilindres en V. Substitueix de forma gradual a les anteriors famílies Windsor i 385. Es fabriquen, des de 1991 principalment a la planta de . També a Windsor, Ontario se'n produeixen. Aquests motors són usats a les camionetes Ford Motor Company (reben el nom de ), cotxes Lincoln (reben el nom d'Intech) i en els Mercury. (ca)
The Ford Modular engine is Ford Motor Company's overhead camshaft (OHC) V8 and V10 gasoline-powered small block engine family. Despite popular belief that the Modular engine family received its moniker from the sharing of engine parts across numerous Ford vehicle platforms, in reality, the Modular engine family was named as such by Ford Motor Company for the new "modular approach" to the setup of tooling and casting stations in the Windsor and Romeo engine manufacturing plants. (en)